Canteen-filler



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

STEPHEN H. RUSSELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GANTEEN-FILLER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 33,105, dated August 20, 1861.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN H. RUSSELL, of Boston, in the county ofSuifolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a Soldiers CanteenFiller and Drinking- Tube Combined, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1. is alongitudinal section through the tube, applied to a canteen-F ig. 2. asection of the tube full size, detached from the canteen and incondition to be used as a drinking tube*Fig. 3 represents a soldier inthev act of filling his canteen.

A simple but very useful article has been devised for the convenience ofsoldiers and travelers, consisting of a small iexible tube of vulcanizedindia rubber, to one end of which is attached a mouth piece a Fig. l.and to the other end a filter b of hard rubber or other suitablematerial, the filter contains a sponge c and has a perforated disk i;with this tube a person may drink with safety and comfort from theshallowest spring or brook, in positions where the water could not bedipped up in a vessel without stirring up the mud and spoiling thewater.

The object of my present invention is to enable the soldier or travelernot only to drink but to fill his canteen or other bottle where thewater is shallow, and my invention consists in attaching to the drinkingtube at or near the middle of its length a short tube of metal or othersuitable material dividedby a partition and surrounded by a disk ofrubber, which when placed on the mouth of the vessel to be filled andpressed tightly to exclude the air-will fill the vessel by exhaustingthe air from it through the mouthpiece of the tube.

That others skilled in the art may understand and use my invention Iwill proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried out thesame.

In the said drawings A. is the flexible tube, a the mouthpiece, Z9 thefilter, B. the canteen. A short metal tube C. having a partition cextending lengthwise through it is connected with the rubber tube nearthe middle of the length of it, by a short section of tube f, whichextends at right angles from each side of the tube C, and enters therubber tube. The top end of the tube C is closed by a disk g, While theother end is i open except when covered by a cap h, Fig. 2,

which screws on over the end of the tube. A metal ring m surrounds andis attached to the tube C. immediately below where it joins the rubbertube, and to the underside of this ring is attached a ring of indiarubber Z, which is intended to cover and close the mouth of the vesselto be lilled. The tube C. is cut away on one side at its lower end at o4so that the passage 3 on one side of the partition e is longer than thepassage 4. on the other side. This I find in practice makes the flow ofwater into the vessel more regular, and the stream running from thepassage 3 is not broken by the air which is being exhausted through thepassage 4.

The following is the method of using my improved canteen filler: Thescrew cap L being removed, the end of the tube C is placed in the mouthof the canteen, the rubber ring Z. being pressed down tightly onto it byapplying the thumb to the top of the tube C. as shown in Fig. 3.; thefilter now being held in the brook or spring from which the wateris tobe drawn, the air is exhausted from the canteen through the passage l inthe tube C and through the mouthpiece a, when the water flows up throughthe tube A. and down the passage 3 into the canteen.

The apparatus may be used simply as a drinking tube by screwing on thecap 7L, when the water will pass up the tube A. down the passage 3 andup the passage il to the mouth.

It will be perceived that the cap h does not close the end of thepassage 3., but to make the connection more sure the lower part of `thepartition e is partly cut away to give a freer passage to the water.

Instead of the tube C with its division e, two separate tubes of asmaller size may replace the passages 3 and 4 and be soldered together,and be surrounded by the ring or washer m or its equivalent.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-The above described canteen filler, consisting of the tube A. and shorttube O with its partition c forming the passages 3 and 4L substantiallyas specified.

STEPHEN H. RUSSELL.

Vitnesses:

Trios. R. RoAcH, I. E. TEsoHEMAoHER.

